validator-info reading empty file

validator-info is reading files which might be updated exactly when validator-info access them.

This is rare when validator-info is called manually but when validator-info is called by a script e.g. for monitoring purposes this happens quite often.

I was able to force this by just repeatedly starting validator-info on the cli.

Ways to solve this:

1) don't read frequently changing files but query the indy-node service and the OS

2) keep a number of input files around and if reading and parsing the latest fails go for the second oldest

3) if reading and parsing files wait a second and try again

(Intermediate solution: don't fail to provide any validator info but only fail on the info read from file but continue to provide info gathered from OS and services.)

Traceback of a modified version of validator-info so the line numbers might not match your's:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/validator-info2", line 830, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/bin/validator-info2", line 818, in main
    print(get_stats_from_file(file_path, args.verbose, args.json, args.nagios))
  File "/usr/local/bin/validator-info2", line 590, in get_stats_from_file
    stats = json.loads(f.read())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/_init_.py", line 319, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/decoder.py", line 357, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
 
Here the file is empty and therefor not valid json.